It wasn’t necessary.
Alleria could have had her ‘encounter’ with the void, all the while her forces retained their unadulterated High Elf identity.
In fact, it would have set up a better story revolving around the true inheritors of Quel’thalas, the blood elves or the ‘Allerian’ high elves.
Along with the new hairstyles, simply changing their eye blues would have been enough to differentiate them from their blood elf counterparts.
They do have their own hairstyles?
And seriously this High Elves threads are getting really annoying…
NO NO NO STOP NOW void elves are high elves that’s the only high elf you will ever get now shush and go away we don’t want you people here.
That was the not the point of the post.
It was more of an exploration as to why blizzard would go through so much effort to create this narrative when, like with LFD, a simpler answer would have been to just leave the high elves as they are, along with adding the kro’kul draenei.
What’s the point of this thread?
Good or bad, we are here now and you best just get used to it.
Oh wait, just another “I want High elves” thread. Simply unbelievable.
Void elves are so much better than vanilla elves.
Not everyone finds goats interesting.
It’s because they are being unnecessarily stubborn and wierd about giving alliance high elves. Even tho that narrative would make way more sense with Vareesa than the stupid void elf narrative under Alleria.
They can’t ever just give you what you ask for. They have to put their “creative” spin on it. However stupid it may sound or be.
Blizzard is never going to give blue eyed Blood Elves to the Alliance.
There are way more us than there are of them.
Better than giving a literal copy of another race with just a different eye color
The main reason for it is functionally as a playable race they aren’t different. An eye color change isn’t enough. It’s just giving blood elves to Alliance in the same way pandaren are on both sides. And Blizz doesn’t want to blur the faction lines to that extent again. So we got void elves, a more unique spin on it.
In lore I think they’re interesting. Void elves do bring up a good point of what happens to Void researchers now that the Sunwell is half Light. But that’s opinion based, not everyone is going to like everything that happens. And that’s totally fine.
Also the true inheritors are the blood elves. Blood elves and high elves are the same people, they just have different faction loyalties. Quel’thalas is home to all of them, it’s just the vast majority are with the Horde. Only small groups aren’t part of that.
The high elf population was brought down to near extinction levels after Arthas invaded. Near Extinction. The whole population argument supporting more BE vs HE holds no water here. How fast do you think you can breed?
You mean like LFD and draenei?
Normal draenei with the white skin tone are next to impossible to differentiate from a lightforge, other than eye color. With LFD DK’s, there is no difference.
Horn style bud. I can legit tell the difference through skin tones and horn styles.
Different skin tone, different eye color, different horns, and also tattoos
there is lore reasons from before wow they prevent blood elves ever joining the alliance from back in Warcraft 3 and the books the name blood elf is what all high elves are as their rightful king whom well prince kael’thas whom renamed all not some ALL high elves to blood elves inhonor to those who died defending quel’thalas and many other reasons such as them being on horde for years now that prevents alliance ever getting them blizzard is never and will never give you guys the blood/high elves you wanted but decided to give you something to shut you up by adding lore to make you have void elves as that is the ONLY WAY BLIZZZARD WAS EVER WILLING TO GIVE YOU THE ELVES this is a fact this is reality your feelings are not a factor here you don’t have a say you got your alliance high elves aka void elves that’s the most you will ever have you don’t get what you want life isn’t fair so just live with what you have because that’s all youl get.
No. I don’t think it’s better.
We needed hot goth elves though.
LFD have 3 skin tones, grey, grey white, white grey.
Draenei, have white skin tone, 2 of them if you are a dk.
Reflective neon tattoos and horns with no markeable difference make for a copy + paste, low effort race.
Hmmmm. Didn’t they say the same thing about never giving us classic servers? I remember that from somewhere…